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THE

AOTIQUABY.

[JUNE, 1874.

With reverence to bis dearest spouse

Qnoth Chand in accents mild ;
That holy name of God most high,

Pure, infinite, nndefiled,
Beyond the compass of all shape,

Form, stroke, or lettered sign,
Fathomless, indivisible,

That no sphere can confine,
Hymned I that name, by my Lord's help

And Sarasvati's grace,"
Jeers still would mock my faltering style,

O Queen of the lotus face.

IX. 0 reverent and most pure-souled bard,

Versed in all rhythmic law,
Who lisped in numbers as a babe,

Numbers that knew no flaw,
Like Ganga's stream, on pours thy song

In rich mellifluous flood,
A spell of might that all confess,

Bat most the wise and good ;
The incarnate god, who rules the world,

King Prithiraj the Great,
Of lordly chieftains lordlier lord,

Be it thine to celebrate.

X. Unto his fair and stately dame

Quoth Ohand in loving wise :
Dear charmer, clinging vine of love,

Foretaste of Paradise,
With girlish eyes of witching glance,

My queen, my soufs delight,
Noting all faults bat knowing none,

Heaven's rich-dowered favourite ;
List while I teH in faltering tones

How infinite a throng

S, andMSS.

I tore jwteerwed Bk&mxk*® terajba of the name in my text,
Wt tW aH* «£' foe aofc been identified. There

Is atowft Gwgaw. (M0 2T ; 86° 55*} on the Hue of

0Gwtry between. BiMr and N%Qr, but it is not known to
hov* beon^A. p3aoe/)£ soy mark. Titere is also a celebrated
fco% of bigfe antiojnty on the same line of wmmimica-
tioiinra«aGidoir<aA*IS'j860fie'), which may have served
as aa oatpoefe of tas B&ftr Heftd-qoarters.

f DeoWO^aP 13 s tat* : S6" $.), the chief pkce in
Gmag^-fimptbr (distnttoi Dto&jp&r), is now known by the
»aw««rflfetmto*, Hamilton states that it received its
present sp|)fiiMI0n fmm xte laving tpea a m3iiary station
dnxbif the early Hmimiira^dxtt goiremmwt (n. SD).

tc^^i of

bfe troops

|» lAVtena at » later date

49H tilt W I» «a mdea rf

ft1 %*

!H» M^^ ad&iSris ™

J^ ^IwcWforadfftooe of

f. it», **AKJ£tfZVt fSrtLji'

Of diverse talents, diverse theme,
Are tne great lords of song.
XI. First I adore the one primeval Lord,

Who breathed the unutterable, eternal

word;

Who out of formless chaos formed the earth,
And all erection, as he willed, had birth.
Through the three spheres his threefold

glory sped.
Fiends, gods, and men—earth, heaven, and

hell o'erspread.
Then the supreme, in Brahma's form

revealed,
By the four Yedas heaven's closed gate

unsealed.

How sing the great creator, uncreate,
Passionless, fornJess, aye unchanged iii

state ? fyc.

4. " The Initial Coinage of Bengal under the
early Muharamadan Conquerors,' Part H. by E.
Thomas. F.K.S. This paper is devoted to the
illustration, of a recent find of 37 coins in the fort
of Bihar, and restricted to a period of 13 years, of
the age of Ghiyas-ud-din 'Iwaz, of whose career
Mr. Thoma-s gives the following outline:—"Husam-
ud-din 'Iwaz, KUlji, a native of G-hor in Afghan-
istan, on joining Muhammad Bakhtyar Khilji in
Bengal, was entrusted by that commander with the
charge of the district of G-angautri.* He was after-
wards promoted to the important military division
..f Deokot,f by Qutb-ud-dintAibak's representative
commissioner in the south-east, and with his aid
eventually defeated Muhammad Sheran and the
other confederated Khilji chief s. J On the definite

J 1?he subjoined curious notice of the distribution of the
boundaries of the Mngdom of Bengal shortly before the
Muhammadiui conquest has been preserved in Hamilton's
Hvn&iurUwh The compiler does not give his specific
authority.

"During the Adisur dynasty the foUowing are said
to have been the ancient geographical divisions of Bengal,
Gaur was the capital* forming the centre division, and
surrounded by five great provinces.

" I. Barendra, bounded by the Mahananda on the west;
by the Padma, or great branch of the Ganges, on the
southj by the Kortoya on the east; and by adjacent
governments on the north.

a 3- Bangga, or the territory east from the Kortoya
towards tie Brahmaputra. The capital of Bengal, both
before and afterwards, having long been near Dacca in
the province of Baztgga, the name is said to have been
comm.unica.ted to the whole.

**&« Bagri, or the Delta, called also Dripa, or the
island, bounded on the ore side by the Padma, or great
branch of the Ganges j on another by the sea 3* and on the
tMrd by Use "HugE river, or Bhagirathi

"4. EarH, bounded, by <the Hugli and the Padma on
the north and east, and by adjacent kingdoms on the west
and south,

a &. HaiiMb^ bounded by £he Hahanaiida and Gaur an

the test; tha HugK or BImgiraiM on the south ,* and by

,-ji;-.-__t. -____j_•_. i>i,_ ±i-.'^^••» -i _.j_*»

at Bitrampir, eight miles
Sen was succeeded by Laksh-
Mana-Se»,, wfeo wB*:defetea % MJuhammad BafctySr- The
author oont^iaes^ ** It is ipcwsable that tibe J&&J& only retired